I'm sure many of us read this book in either high school or junior high, and as of yesterday, the cast just got a little bit younger. Here's is a link to the story to which I am referring:
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/04/01/third-grade-teacher.html?ref=rss
Well it looks like the next generation of gun-happy, school-shooting maniacs are coming along just fine.
Is this as shocking to everyone else as it is to me? Perhaps it shouldn't be. School violence is getting more popular every day it seems. How does it happen that a teacher scolding one child for standing on a chair gets her put on an adolescent hit list?? What happens to these childrens' parents when they scold them? Thirty lashes??!
Maybe that is just it. Are these children being disciplined at all at home? It's pretty easy to blame the parents when anything like this happens, but are they really to blame? We don't really know - and more than likely will never know - how issues of this sort are handled in the homes of these children, so we really have nothing to base that sort of arguement on...unfortunately.
Asking this many questions with so few answers is pretty frustrating. It reminds me of the frustration I felt after every one of the school shootings that have occured over the past decade happened. There are no answers and no good reasons. Isn't it supposed to work that where there is a problem, there is a solution? If only it were that simple. Schools have taken significant security measures since the Columbine tragedy, but in reality, nothing has changed.
School is no longer the safe place that I once knew it as a kid. Perhaps it's just the world in general that isn't as safe as it once was. But there are so few reasons and answers. Only questions.
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